In total, 332 players have advanced from the four Day 1 sessions of the $500,000 GTD opening event of this year’s Fall Poker Open. They will return to Level 17, to not only play into the money, but to also play down to the final 18 players. Going from over 300 down to just two tables is not going to be a quick process, so the returning Day 2 players should all be prepared for a series grind, a grind that will start at 12 PM.

The majority of the Day 2 restart will take place in the Signature Room, with Tables 1-25 starting and finishing their day in the Signature Room. All other tables will start in the Poker Room and then move themselves across the hall as the field consolidates prior to the money bubble. That money bubble likely won’t come into focus for a few hours and when an official Event 1 payout structure is produced, we’ll post it for both players and blog followers to reference.

Before players lock up an Event 1 cash, they need to know where they’re sitting to start Day 2 and that information is provided below in our searchable and sortable Day 2 seating assignment chart:

This Day 1C field is just a few minutes from the first break of the day and while we are going to continue with our 1C coverage on the other side of that break, heading into it, there is some housekeeping to address from yesterday’s two starting flights. In total, 540 players entered Day 1A and 1B and when it was all said and done, 104 players advanced to Thursday’s Day 2 session.

There were a few big stacks to come out of each flight but player’s trying to make Day 2 today will all be chasing Stephanie Hubbard, who bagged just shy of 475,000. That number is more than 150,000 chips better than her nearest competitor, as Dennis McCann came out of Day 1A with 310,000. Those two were the only players over the 300,000 chip mark, with a handful of players falling just short of that number, including John Castaldo, Jon Gottlieb and Roman Valerstein, to round out the top five.

It will be interesting to see if anyone in either of today’s flights can match Hubbard’s massive stack, as a nearly 500,000 chip stack is usually good for the clubhouse lead heading into Day 2 in BPO opening events. A complete list of the 104 players that have already advanced is provided below in our sortable and searchable chart:

FIRST NAME

LAST NAME

CITY

ST

CHIP COUNT

STEPHANIE

HUBBARD

TILTON FALLS

NJ

474,000

DENNIS

MCCANN

BELLEROSE

NY

310,500

JOHN

CASTALDO

VALLEY STREAM

NY

295,000

JON

GOTTLIEB

ROSLYN

NY

292,500

ROMAN

VALERSTEIN

LANGHORNE

PA

283,500

CHRISTOPHER

LIM

BRONX

NY

282,000

MOHSEN

SALHA

ITASCA

IL

275,000

BRIAN

LEE

GROTON

MA

250,000

EDWARD

HAGGERTY

LEVITTOWN

PA

247,500

MARC

GOLDHABER

MOUNT SINAI

NY

245,000

ASHER

CONNIFF

BROOKLYN

NY

241,000

SEAN

SULLIVAN

SAYREVILLE

NJ

233,500

JOSEPH

VUOZZO

HOLTSVILLE

NY

224,500

LUIS

DELACRUZ

NEWARK

NJ

209,000

ALEXANDER

KARTVELI

STATEN ISLAND

NY

209,000

DEEANGELO

SENG

SICKLERVILLE

NJ

200,500

ALLEN

GORDON

PHILADELPHIA

PA

195,500

THEODORE

ELY

BROOKLYN

NY

193,500

MICHAEL

HAGER

NORWOOD

PA

185,500

RAMY

GUIRGUIS

PHILADELPHIA

PA

185,500

THINLEY

KALSANG

JACKSON HGHTS

NY

180,500

DANIEL

JANELA

HACKETTSTOWN

NJ

175,500

TYLOR

ROGERS

MANAHAWKIN

NJ

169,000

ADAM

BENOWITZ

PLYMOUTH

PA

168,500

MATTHEW

STOUT

LAS VEGAS

NV

166,000

MATTHEW

GUNTER

BEL AIR

MD

165,500

PERNELL

PARKER

PALMERTON

PA

165,500

RALPH

RUSSO

BROOKLYN

NY

164,000

YONG

FENG

SHANGHAI

162,000

FRANK

DEFUSO

WOMELSDORF

PA

160,500

ANTHONY

IMPERIAL

MAYS LANDING

NJ

156,000

ANTONIO

SABATINO

ST JAMES

NY

155,000

JENNIFER

SO

GALLOWAY

NJ

150,000

MICHAEL

MOORE

N CAPE MAY

NJ

149,500

TOMASZ

GLINIECKI

JACKSON

NJ

149,000

LEONID

VIZIROV

CHALFONT

PA

149,000

JOHN

SHORT

FRANKLINVILLE

NJ

147,000

MATTHEW

GAMBINO

WEST BABYLON

NY

145,000

HANH

NGUYEN

NORFOLK

VA

145,000

GLENN

LAFAYE

RIDGEFIELD

CT

139,000

TONY

SABBAGH

RIDGE

NY

138,500

DAVID

VAN NOY

CLARKSVILLE

MD

137,500

JASON

DEUTSCH

HOBOKEN

NJ

136,500

PAL

ZAGREDA

BRONX

NY

135,500

THOMAS

MILLER

CEDAR GROVE

NJ

128,500

RALPH

MACRI

REDDING

CT

126,500

MICHAEL ROWLAND

KEMETER

ALLENTOWN

PA

126,000

JAMES

LILLIS

ROBBINSVILLE

NJ

126,000

VITTORIO

ABBATE

COLTS NECK

NJ

124,500

PAUL

SPITZBERG

TENAFLY

NJ

122,500

VINCE

SOLOMON

EDISON

NJ

121,500

MICHAEL

MARDER

SEWELL

NJ

119,500

STEPHEN

CELESTE

HOWELL

NJ

112,500

JOSEPH

TOZZI

OCEAN CITY

MD

112,000

PETER

SENNON

BRONX

NY

111,500

WAYNE

LEWIS

GALLOWAY

NJ

111,000

SEAN

KLINE

ABINGDON

MD

109,500

CHAD

REYNOLDS

INWOOD

WV

109,000

PETER

LIN

BEAR

DE

106,000

ADAM

ROTH

BAYSIDE

NY

106,000

MICHAEL

SCHNEIDER

MANALAPAN

NJ

104,000

BENJAMIN

BEAHM

VOORHEES

NJ

102,500

RANDI

SCHRAMKO

WALDORF

MD

102,500

RYAN

MCKNIGHT

HARRISBURG

PA

101,500

JOHN

MCGINLEY

JERSEY CITY

NJ

100,500

JAMES

SPARACIO

MOORESTOWN

NJ

96,000

VINCENT

BASILICATA

LITTLE NECK

NY

96,000

EDWARD

DOHUNG

READING

PA

94,000

NORMAN

MICHALEK

WESTFIELD

NJ

92,500

ROBERT

HOVER

WHITMAN

MA

91,500

GREGORY

FISHBERG

HUNTINGDON VALLEY

PA

91,000

JUSTIN

TSENG

FLUSHING

NY

89,000

RICHARD

ROSSETTI

VENTNOR

NJ

88,500

CHRISTOPHER

LAFRANCESCA

STATEN ISLAND

NY

88,000

JOSEPH

PASCUCCI

MANAHAWKIN

NJ

87,500

MILAN

DOBRILOVIC

WEST NYACK

NY

83,500

MICHAEL

GUZZARDI

BRANFORD

CT

83,000

NICK

BLACKBURN

LONG BOTTOM

OH

81,000

CHRISTIAN

GONZALEZ

CLIFFSIDE PARK

NJ

77,000

STEPHEN

WARNER

CAPE MAY

NJ

75,000

JESSE ALEXIS

COHEN

ARDMORE

PA

74,000

MENAN

SAYDAM

POTOMAC

MD

73,000

ANDREW

KLEIN

TINTON FALLS

NJ

72,500

GEORGE

INAKAVADZE

WEST NEW YORK

NJ

69,500

SEAN

KURLAND

ST DAVIDS

PA

65,000

JOSEPH

FERMANE

SOMERS POINT

NJ

62,500

GREGORY

JOSLYN

MILFORD

PA

59,000

SCOTT

EINIGER

MONTEBELLO

NY

58,000

CHRISTOPH

CSIK

MARTINSVILLE

NJ

57,500

BRANDON

PEARL

TOMS RIVER

NJ

56,500

DARIUS

STUDDARD

MEDFORD

NY

53,000

BINH

PHAM

SPRINGFIELD

VA

52,500

VESELIN

KATRANDZHIEV

MOUNT PROSPECT

IL

51,000

ELPIDOFOROS

PANTELI

WEST BABYLON

NY

50,500

ANDREW

GLAUBERG

TENAFLY

NJ

50,000

JOHN

DRAZEK

REHOBOTH

MA

49,500

GENE

RAMAN

MULLICA HILL

NJ

49,000

BRYAN

HAYES

MOORESTOWN

NJ

38,000

SCOTT

MATTE

SYOSSET

NY

37,000

KENNY

LAY

ABSECON

NJ

36,000

JOHN

RODRIGUES

BREWSTER

NY

33,500

MEIKAT

SIU

NEW YORK

NY

33,000

WELTHER

MARMOL

PROVIDENCE

RI

15,000

It should also be noted that this event is a best stack forward tournament, meaning that players are allowed to play future starting flights, even if they’ve already bagged chips.

Lots of all-ins on the last four hands of the night. Jon Gottlieb was the latest to profit from the end-of-night desperation.

Brandon Pearl and the player in seat 10 both had AQ. Jon had pocket Kings and was all-in for 98,400. The board came Q 8 5 7 5 and Jon tripled up to ~310,000, busting seat 10 in the process. Brandon was left short-stacked.

Sometimes we just get lucky. Right in front of our media table a huge hand took place on table 5. Three players were all-in pre-flop holding pocket Aces, pocket Kings, and pocket Queens. The Aces belonged to Stephanie Hubbard.

The board ran out safely 7 5 3 8 6 and Stephanie sent both opponents to the rail. She chipped up to ~480,000, good for the chip lead.

The last level of the night is underway. At the conclusion of Level 16, (shortly after 8pm) the black chips will be colored up, then the bag & tag process will begin.

On a flop of J 9 x with two clubs, three players got all their chips in the middle. Seat 9 (sb) was ahead with {as}{9s} for middle pair with top kicker. Seat 6 was open-ended with {qh}{th}. Ed Haggerty (bb) was also drawing, to a flush with {6c}{3c}. He had both opponents covered.

It was over when the third club came on the turn. Ed’s flush was good to take the pot, busting both opponents in the process. He chipped up to about 220,000.

While DeeAngelo Seng seems to have stalled, Dennis McCann is still accumulating chips. He has taken the Flight A chip llead with ~300,000.

We’re coming down the backstretch here in the Signature Room with just over an hour left to play in Flight A.

DeeAngelo Seng has quietly accumulated a massive stack back on table 4. He’s up to ~270,000.

DeeAngelo has a WSOP Circuit ring from back in 2005 and has roughly $125,000 in tournament earnings to his credit. His largest single score was also his best finish here at Borgata, in the August 2011 $350+$50 Saturday Series NLH event. He finished second for more than $44,000.

Dennis McCann’s table just broke and he’s now taking well over a quarter-million chip stack to his new table, with just two and half levels left in this Day 1A flight.

We’re about to get an update on the actual Day 1A chip leader but prior to massive stack that the FPO blog team found in the back corner of the Signature Room, Dennis McCann looked like he was going to hold the honor at the biggest stack in the room. McCann and his 265,000 chips still have him near the top of that leaderboard and while he spend the majority of the last few levels building his stack at Table 10, he’ll now have to continue to build at a new table.

That’s because Table 10 is no longer, as just nine tables currently remain in play for this Day 1A flight. McCann is likely to be on the move sooner, rather than later, as he just took his new seat at Table 9, which is the next scheduled table to break. Regardless of his late Day 1A moves and travels, McCann will try to continue to build his stack through the next two and a half levels.

Tony Schiano is doing his part to bring down the Flight A player count.

In a recent hand, four players on table 5 got all their chips in the middle pre-flop.

Tony: {2h}{2d}
Seat 4: {as}{kh}
Seat 5: {ad}{9d}
Pauly D: {9s}{9c}

Pauly D had the rest covered and was leading with his pocket 9s, so he was poised to knock out three players.

The flop fell {ts}{td}{7d} giving seat 5 the nut flush draw, but Pauly was still in the lead. Then the {2c} came on the turn, giving Tony deuces-full and a near hammer-lock on the hand. Seats 4 and 5 were drawing dead and headed for the door.

Pauly needed the case 9 or one of two remaining Tens on the river to bust Tony for the triple-KO. The river brought the {3h} however and Tony scored the double-KO, chipping up to ~90,000. Pauly D was left with about 60,000.

Prior to the final break of this Day 1A session, Table 7 was full of action and full of FPO paparazzi coverage. Luis De La Cruz turned pocket kings into a semi-bluff to win a sizable pot to move himself up and over the 150,000 chip mark and Hobie Atkins wanted to get a picture of himself “playing next to a celebrity”, as he’s been working next to BorgataPoker.com’s Asher Conniff over the last few levels.

Luis De La Cruz just turned pocket kings into a semi-bluff on an ace-high flop, a move that worked and moved the former Borgata Poker champion up and over the 150,000 chip mark.

DLC‘s hand was picked up while we were fielding Atkin’s request, with De La Cruz and his opponent involved in a leveling war on a board of {Ad}{Qc}{Jh}. That leveling war ended with DLC‘s opponent committing a majority of his stack before folding to De La Cruz’s shove, only to get shown {Kd}{Kh} while claiming to have folded two pair.

Throughout the rest of this starting flight, we could see that sort of tightness occur, as players don’t like to spend all day working towards a bag only to be eliminated in a marginal spot so late in the night. One player who could have a tough go over things at Table 7 through the rest of this Day 1A session is Hobie Atkins, who is to reigning WPT World Champion Asher Conniff’s direct right.

Hobie Atkins is currently playing just over an average stack, despite having potentially the toughest seat in the house, to the direct right of reigning WPT World Champion, BorgataPoker.com ambassador and “celebrity” Asher Conniff.

We’re pretty OI Asher at this point so we didn’t include him in Atkin’s spotlight and while he’s currently playing an average, near 100,000 chip stack, he could be one big hand away from getting more coverage heading towards the end of this Day 1A flight.

Players are now on the final break of the day, as they’ll return to play four levels before bagging and tagging their chips for Thursday’s Day 2 session. The FPO blog will cover this flight through the end of Level 16, with Day 1B also continuing, with that flight currently playing out in the Poker Room.